| The Impossible By Merlin Carothers At 84 I no longer have the same temptations I once had. Now I have the “older folks” ones. Young people are sometimes tempted to think: I can’t do it. No matter how qualified they may be they will never do their best if they accept the “I can’t do it” attitude. Each one of us can accept the “I can’t do it” feeling. We can think, “I’m too tired to do anything” or “My body is sick.” Perhaps we feel like, I”I don’t know how to do anything special” or even “I don’t have the time!” We are tempted to think of all the reasons why we can’t do something that will build God’s Kingdom. We can become too old to do some things, bet we can always believe that since God has kept us alive he still has plans for us. Our bodies will become older and slower, but our attitudes need not be controlled by that. God may have designed our latter days to accomplish far more than ever before. We can learn the meaning of “Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord almighty – you will succeed because of my Spirit, through you are few and weak (Zech. 4:6, TLB). God is seeking a people of any age to accomplish the “impossible.” In one day we could achieve something that will cause a multitude of people to spend eternity in Heaven! What should we do? We can meditate on God’s word. We can listen to the Holy Spirit. He will teach us as we learn to listen. The Bible tells us of many very ordinary men and women through whom God accomplished amazing miracles. Why? Because they believed Him! We are limited only by our faith. We know that God has planned for us to be alive today! That helps us believe that God has a mission for us. Maybe there is a person living near you that is so ungodly that everyone has given up on trying to help them receive Jesus as Savior. God may have brought you to this time and place to bring that person into His family. That person is so valuable in God’s eyes that He will reward the one who helps them. There are many hurting people who do not know even one Christian who has tried to tell them about Jesus. You and I can become that one person! What blessings might God give to the person who causes “impossible” things to happen? Let’s not limit our Lord. He is the mighty Creator – nothing is beyond His power! He can do anything through you and me if we are willing for Him to work through us. His blessings are greater than we can imagine. We should not listen to the voice that whispers, “You will never be used by God to do great things.” Jesus invites everyone who believes in Him, to accomplish impossible things. He gave us reason to stretch our faith when He said we could move mountains if we believe Him. God will help any one of us do what others do not believe can be done. Paul believed and wrote: “I can do anything through Christ who strengthens me (Phil. 4: 13) End of Merlin Carothers’ inspirational message. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "THE OFFER" CLICK HERE We are not saved by good works, we are saved UNTO good works prepared by God from the foundation of the world. (Eph. 4:10-12) “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.” These works bring great joy even as the work of bringing a child into this world brings great joy although the suffering may be great. When Moses asked God to show him His glory, God said He would pass His “goodness” before Moses. Goodness produces good works, righteous works. God works are good. We are called to enter into those works. Those works are God’s glory manifested in the earth. We are to be God’s glory in the earth. The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and whoever wins souls is wise. (Proverbs 11:30) The mouth of the righteous is a well of life. (Proverbs 10:11) The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all His works. (Psalm 145:17) “…He shall reward everyone man according to his works.” (Matt. 16:27) We are the righteousness of the Lord. We are to bear “good fruit.” We are to win souls. We are to “speak the truth in love.” We are to be holy, separated unto Jesus Christ, our head and covering. We are a city on a hill, the salt of the earth. We, believers in Jesus Christ, play an important part in God’s plan of the harvesting of this world’s souls. Sometimes we who believe in Universal Salvation seem to think we play no part on God’s scheme of things, that we can just relax and let God do it all. But He does all His works here on earth through a people. We are ALL called unto the “good works prepared by God.” The first step in doing the work of God is to believe on Him Whom the Father sent. Even this act is impossible until Jesus sends us His faith in order to believe. After all, He is the “author and finisher of our faith.” (Heb. 12:2) After that we are to be “led of the Spirit” to do the works of God even as Jesus was led of the Spirit to do the works of His Father. Jesus said, “Truly, truly, I say to YOU (the reader), (s)he that believes on me, the works that I do shall (s)he do also; and greater works that these shall (s)he do because I go to My Father.” (John 14:12) Do YOU believe this of yourself? I do. And I want to make you an offer that will help you to be a blessing to others in your life. Super Offer to Be a Blessing to Others! 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